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« on: September 01, 2006, 03:40:37 PM »
Ok, untypically, I'm bored..kiddo is gone, housework is mostly done, it's been raining all day, don't feel like getting off my butt and don't feel like reading a book or sewing or any of my standard indoor things.

So..time to learn something new..give me some educational websites..I don't care what they're about, just something interesting. I did look at an Arabic language page and that's ok, but I think tapes are better.
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« Reply #1 on: September 01, 2006, 04:04:06 PM »
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« Reply #2 on: September 01, 2006, 04:14:55 PM »
Don't know that it's really educational, but Tricks of the Trade has some fun & interesting tips, tricks, and personal insight.

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Oh yeah, even though you have to take some of it with a grain of salt... there's always Wikipedia.  I can get lost there for hours at a time, and if you're feeling gamey you can try accessing the main portal: http://www.wikipedia.org/ and try it in one of about 85 other languages.

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« Reply #3 on: September 01, 2006, 04:41:34 PM »
Pulling out of my bookmark list...

How stuff works

Don't know if this is your thing, but an Anarchist's Cookbook type site

That's most of what I have for 'educational' stuff.
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« Reply #5 on: September 01, 2006, 06:03:26 PM »
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« Reply #7 on: September 01, 2006, 06:23:10 PM »
www.eham.net

No, it's not about pork.

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« Reply #8 on: September 01, 2006, 10:39:56 PM »
Read this:

http://www.bbvforums.org/cgi-bin/forums/board-auth.cgi?file=/2197/36444.html

Follow the PDF links mentioned.

WARNING!!!  This is the THE biggest rabbit hole you could possibly fall down.  Once you really grok what's going on here, you will never forget it and you might be driven to keep digging.
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« Reply #10 on: September 02, 2006, 09:41:48 AM »
http://www.corneredcat.com is Pax's website on women's CCW issues.

This is more information on old jeeps than you could imagine. (I don't know, you're bored. I'm just tossing out ideas. Tongue)

You could always start digging into your family history: http://www.ancestry.com
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« Reply #11 on: September 02, 2006, 11:39:26 AM »
Carlsbad Caverns National Park - http://www.nps.gov/archive/cave/home.htm

Lechuguilla Cave wiki entry - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lechuguilla_Cave

Crowell, TX (my home town) wiki entry - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crowell%2C_Texas

The Bad Kitty list (entertainment, not education) - http://www.badpets.net/BadPets/BadKitty.html

The Internet Movie Database - http://www.imdb.com/

The United States Geological Survey - http://www.usgs.gov/

Amateur Rocketry - http://www.rocketry.org/

Gold Prospectors Association of America - http://www.gpaa.com/

Rockhouding (the Mineralogical Society of America) - http://www.minsocam.org/

Steam Engines - http://www.history.rochester.edu/steam/

Smithsonian Institute - http://www.si.edu/

Los Alamos National Laboratory - http://www.lanl.gov/

NASA - http://www.nasa.gov/home/index.html?skipIntro=1

Tesla Foundation of North America - http://www.tesla.org/

National Severe Storms Lab - http://www.nssl.noaa.gov/

Engineering Tips (all engineering all the time) - http://www.eng-tips.com/

US Forest Service - http://www.fs.fed.us/

National Park Service - http://www.nps.gov/




There, that should hold you for a while!

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« Reply #12 on: September 02, 2006, 12:24:46 PM »
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« Reply #13 on: September 02, 2006, 02:05:51 PM »
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You could always start digging into your family history: http://www.ancestry.com
You don't understand.  Barbara digs into YOUR family history.  If you ask her real nice.
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« Reply #14 on: September 02, 2006, 02:17:34 PM »
Cruising World  http://www.cruisingworld.com/index.jsp

Fun to see how many other links are in my Favorites!

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« Reply #15 on: September 03, 2006, 04:23:50 AM »
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You don't understand.  Barbara digs into YOUR family history.  If you ask her real nice.
D'oh! Forgot whom I was answering.
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